Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name <address>
1 24 46.6 Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
2 20 64.0 Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
3 16 37.1 Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com>
4 14 64.5 Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
5 13 27.2 Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com>
6 13 25.6 James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
7 12 32.7 Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com>
8 12 31.2 ES <ruby-ml@magical-cat.org>
9 12 30.9 Brian Schröder <ruby.brian@gmail.com>
10 11 26.0 Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
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147 385.7 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
198 posters
636 articles
1425.0 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
5.05% of the posters
23.11% of the articles
27.06% of the bytes
Averages:
3.21 articles / poster
2.24 kbytes / article
7.20 kbytes / poster
61 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 106 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
30.81% of the posters
16.67% of the articles
13.83% of the bytes
smallest post was 0.872 kbytes by Michael Vondung <mvondung@gmail.com>
largest post was 15.877 kbytes by Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>*
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
28 66.8 Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
28 60.7 Method Chaining Issues
27 115.3 Intellisense and the psychology of typing
20 41.0 array of object insert polices
18 43.3 internal iterators in ruby
18 38.1 ternary operator confusion
15 46.8 Building a business case for Ruby
11 32.7 Implementing a Read-Only array
11 31.2 Package, a future replacement for setup.rb and mkmf.rb
11 26.3 Interesting discovery...
636 articles on 151 subjects
515 were followups (80.97%)
2 were crossposts (0.31%)
1425.0 kbytes total
headers: 711.4kb 49.92%
quoted text: 187.2kb 13.14%
original text: 461.8kb 32.41%
signatures: 23.2kb 1.63%
Averages:
4.21 articles / subjetc
2.24 kbytes / article
9.44 kbytes / subject
Postings per weekday:
Day posts
Monday 90 *********
Tuesday 89 *********
Wednesday 132 *************
Thursday 144 **************
Friday 89 *********
Saturday 63 ******
Sunday 29 ***
(*=10 posts)
Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):
posts newsreader users
431 (67.77%) ruby-talk 128 64.65%
66 (10.38%) g2 32 16.16%
42 ( 6.60%) thunderbird 14 7.07%
32 ( 5.03%) outlook 4 2.02%
11 ( 1.73%) slrn 5 2.53%
11 ( 1.73%) pan 3 1.52%
9 ( 1.42%) noaa 1 0.51%
9 ( 1.42%) mozilla 1 0.51%
6 ( 0.94%) tin 2 1.01%
4 ( 0.63%) knode 3 1.52%
17 different agents have been used (versions unaccounted).
DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a grain of salt, quantity might not always
denote any quality; people who are not among the top posters also often have
very important and interesting things to say, though they are not listed
here by name.
Have a lot ..., lots of fun!